From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261925AbVFQJiV (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 05:38:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261927AbVFQJiV (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 05:38:21 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:27049 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261925AbVFQJiS (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 05:38:18 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: A Great Idea (tm) about reimplementing NLS. Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:37:35 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200506162118.18470.pmcfarland@downeast.net> <200506170450.12943.pmcfarland@downeast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.80-203-227.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) XEmacs/21.4.15 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MbVXFhROkq7DwKUe92Vsrcynuoc= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Looks like something ate the Hangul. I'll try again, without any other non-ascii characters. >>> As for 50 bytes being too short, many of the multibyte characters are >>> equivalent to several English characters, so fewer of them are >>> required. You have a point, though. >> >> Any English characters (ie, the first 127 ascii characters) map >> directly to the first 127 Unicode characters (if thats what you >> meant). > > Let me clarify with an example. The common Korean name Kim consists > of three ascii characters. The Hangul spelling, κΉ€, is encoded in > utf-8 using three bytes. Even though a three-byte character was used, > the number of bytes is the same.